In a message dated 01-09-03 04:55:08 EDT, Henri Gomez writes...
> >"Ryan Bloom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> If you want to use gzip, then zip your data before putting it on-line.
> That
> >> doesn't help generated pages, but perl can already do gzip, as can PHP.
>
> Let me expose my mod_gzip user experience.
>
> I'm using it for more that 9 months on Apache 1.3 servers and never
> had any problems with it. It's really a great piece of code and all
> my end users are more than happy to get their stuff quicker.
>
> What about asking Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler about
> the leaks in zlib library, and possible fixes ? In case of severe
> problem, you could still add a warning to mod_gzip potential
> users.
Hi Henri...
This is Kevin Kiley.
It isn't necessary to ask Jean or Mark about leaks in ZLIB with
regards to mod_gzip or add any 'warnings' because mod_gzip
does NOT USE ZLIB. There are no 'leaks' of any kind in mod_gzip
and since it uses its own context-based control deck for all compression
tasks it is 100% thread-safe.
Your suggestion is a good one but it would only apply to things
that actually use ZLIB such as Ian's 2.0 filtering demo.
> >And Tomcat 4.x :)
> >Pier
>
> Hello, Pier, happy to see your here also.
>
> Compression is a time consuming task and I'd rather like to see it
> handled by native code instead of java code.
>
> Of course the same thing is true for Crypto operation, and that's why
> I was more than happy to see mod_ssl contributed to Apache 2.0 :)))
Yours...
Kevin Kiley